Elrhazosaurus Elrhazosaurus
"Elrhaz lizard"
You 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall
Elrhazosaurus 5 m (16.4 ft) long
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- Length
- 5 m (16.4 ft)
- Period
- Early Cretaceous (115 Mya)
- Place
- Niger
- Food
- Herbivore
- Clade
- Dryosauridae
Elrhazosaurus (meaning “Elrhaz lizard”) is a genus of basal iguanodontian dinosaur, known from isolated bones found in Early Cretaceous rocks of Niger. These bones were initially thought to belong to a species of the related dryosaurid Valdosaurus, but have since been reclassified.
What we know
- Named by Galton, 2009 (Galton and Taquet, 1982).
- Fossils found in Niger.